Toilet soap novelty



May 20, 1947. c H C 2,420,734

TOILET SOAP NOVELTY Filed Feb. 4, 19 46 H I F 1 l 3' H II 16 I8 15 I v XXXXXXXXXXX XX Xm y M F 2 a g, 5 I2, g

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ATTORNEY Patented May 20, 1 94'?" UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE TOILET SOAP NOVELTY Charles H. Churchill, Cortland, N. Y.

Application February 4, 1946, Serial No. 645,401

The present invention relates to a novel toilet soap cake, and is more particularly concerned with imparting thereto a relatively flat sectionalized shape by means of multiple blocklike components of solid water soluble soap which as a whole may be articulately bound together by inherently pliant material to constitute a laterally flexible cake adapted to be firmly clasped in the hand for personal toilet use and to conform to the body contour when taking a bath or in meeting like scouring needs.

The object of my invention is to create a unique cake of toilet soap, of the indicated character that may be profitably marketed in volume as an attractive gift shop or other specialty sales item.

Reference is bad to the accompanying one sheet of drawings which depict a preferred illustrativeexemplification, and in which:

Fig. 1 represents a perspective view of my soap cake, and Fig. 2 is a plan view thereof.

Fig. 3 shows a cross-sectional view taken along 3--3 of Fig. 2, and Fig. 4 in perspective details a preferred binder agency.

Referring more specifically to these disclosures, a relatively flat soap cake may comprise successive rows of truncated block units such as I. The plural blocks in each row may be individually or" simultaneously moulded, die cast or otherwise shaped to constitute multiple pyramidal units of comparatively rigid soap each having a base face H, a top face [2 and mated sloping side faces I4 and 15 that converge. As shown, the respective base faces may be given a rectangular contour of like area and respectively disposed in interspaced checkerboard pattern to provide for the maximum of cubic soap content in given cake dimensions. If desired, said faces may also be given a modified configuration.

The vertex angle formed between a base face and each sloping side face is preferably kept acute and slightly interspaced from the toe of a next adjacent block unit by the narrow gap or interspacing H6. The successive base faces It may be aligned to fall into a common plane. One side of a relatively thin laterally resilient binder agency ll such as dish cloth or other open mesh woven material (see Fig. 4.) may be embedded or otherwise affixed to the respective coplanar base faces of a row or successive rows of block units in a bridging relation to their respective interspaces. Such bonded composite structure provides for an articulated soap cake adapted to have its linked sectionalized compo- Claims. (Cl. 252-134) nents flexed transversely by the binder I1 which constitutes an integral part of my soap cake, substantially the whole of such binder surface being effectively utilized and centrally embedded within the cake body confines.

When mated block side faces such as I4 and it are urged toward each other, the inverted wedge shaped clearance I8 therebetween allow the linked block units of my assembled soap cake to be tilted into inclined relationship. In such jointed block interconnection, each embedded binder portion is virtually equivalent to a hinge leaf while the binder material in gap spanning portion serves as pintle means.

In sheet form, the binder I1 may also serve to reversely superimpose thereon mated sets of soap block units such as ID to constitute a dupleX cake of which the respective block altitudes are preferably kept identical, corresponding base faces H and I I being placed in registry as shown in Fig. 1. Such interposed binder sheet I! may be permanently embedded under pressure into all of the binder contacting faces to form a unitary commodity.

It is not essential that my soap block units be kept identical in size or shape, nor that a solitary binder sheet be bonded in a plane coincident with the respective base faces II and II. It is preferred however to place a series of truncated component units in a row or checker pattern as described to shape up a relatively flat articulated soap cake that is circumscribed by a grippable rectangular contour l9 and having the binder margin slightly inset as shown in Fig. 2; also to provide for an articulated flat soap cake that as a Whole may be laterally flexed in divers directions.

In my articulated cake, the initially thick dual sets of truncated soap blocks are both kept usable until by repeated attrition, their respective block altitudes become gradually reduced until the non-soluble binder agency is reached. To afford adequate cake life, the altitude of each such opposed soap blocks is preferably kept approximately equal in thickness to the base width and materially greater than the narrow base interspacing it. Such disposition also affords a maximum of available soap content within the confines of a given binder contour which need not extend beyond the overall size Hi. The fact that the major portion of both sides of my strip binder are protectively covered except for the narrow block interspaces, protects the bonded soap blocks against being washed loose after pro tracted submergence in water.

prising two similar closely interspaced rows of truncated block segments of water soluble soap respectively having a comparatively wide base face and an initial altitude prior to attrition materially greate in extent thanthe interspacing,

given to the respective base faces, the correspond"- ing base faces of one such block row being, super imposed in substantial registry upon those in the other row to virtually align in a, commonplane,v and a relatively thin woven binder means aflixedly interposed between allsuch superimposed base faces to. successively span the aforesaid block interspaces and serving to render any next adjacent. pairs of superimposed soap blocks inclinable withoutcakerupture.

2..A unitary segmented cake of toilet soap collectively shaped to be hand clasped! and comprising two similar rows of closely interspaced truncated blocklike segments, of water soluble soap-which are respectively providediwith a base face,, the corresponding, faces in one such row being superimposed in substantial registry upon those in the other row to virtually align in a common plane and all of which bases are compactly confined within a certain overall marginal contour, and a laterally pliant, sheet binder affixedly interposed between such superimposed base faces. to-span the interspaces of the aforesaid segments and the perimetric contour of which binder. isslightly insetwith. respect to such overall marginal confines.

3. A unitary segmented cake of toilet. soap having opposed relatively flat sides collectively shaped to be hand clasped and initially comprising dual mated sets of truncated Pyramidal segments of solid water soluble soap respectively having an approximate equal altitude, each such segment being provided with a base face, the respective faces of one such set being positioned in closely interspaced checkerboard pattern to lie in coplanar relationship and which successive faces are superimposed upon the other set of face in substantial registry, and: an interposed laterally pliant binder agency that isnon-soluble in water and reversely bonded between such superimposed faces to span the respective interspace thereof, said agency serving to render th soap cake articulate when flexed laterally in angularly divers directions.

4. A.unitary segmented cake of toilet soap comprising similar dual sets of truncated block segments of water-soluble soap respectively having a base face of substantial width that are interspaced from each other and an initial altitude prior to attrition approximately equal in extent to such width, corresponding faces in one such set of segments being superimposed and mated in substantial registry with thoseof the other set, and an interposed'common woven binder agency afiixedly embedded between such superimposed base, faces to, span the several segmented interspaces and which base faces collectively cover the major portion. of both sides of. the binder agency to substantially shelter said embedded faces against attrition. when the cake is submerged in water.

CHARLES HARVEY CHURCHILL.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this. patent:

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